I grew up in Ohio and my mother's family all live in Delaware. So 2 - 3 times a year, we'd pile in the car and make the 10 hour drive to visit them. This was long before the ingenious invention of DVD players for your kids, so our entertainment usually consisted of road spotting. Probably all of you have done it... doing the alphabet off the license plates of other cars or counting red cars or... well all that jazz.
Anyway, my mom bought me this activity book for road trips. One of the sections was cataloging the different license plates you saw. There was a little box to check and a date to write down each time you saw a different jurisdiction plate (eg: Oh, a Pennsylvania plate on 10/21/96, mark that).
While I'd long since lost the book, I kept this game alive in my head. In 1999 I caught an Alaskan plate while in Georgia (long drive home). In 2002 I caught a Hawaii plate near Cincinnati (WTH?). I finished the US with a Wyoming plate in 2007.
I also kept track of Canadian Provinces. A checked off a number back in Ohio. It took until I moved here to get some of the lesser populated places like Prince Edward Island and the Yukon.
Well today, after I parked, I was walking towards Future Shop and there was a polar bear-shaped license plate. I literally stopped walking. Right there in this parking lot in Ottawa was a little Honda CRV with Nunavut tags. I couldn't believe it. 30,000 people live in Nunavut. There's no roads leading out. And it was right there. I was
soooooooooooooo excited, I thought, "FINISHED AFTER 12 YEARS!"
And as I was telling people about that, I remembered that after 1999, there were
two polar bear plates. One says Nunavut one says Northwest Territories. I've never seen one from NWT. This disappointment is crushing

I am still 1 plate shy of perfection.